Impacts of positive skin effects on borehole flowmeter tests in a heterogeneous granular aquifer

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 67-75

  Young, Steven C ^a  

^a HYDROGEOLOGIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CALCULATIONS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOWMETERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; WATER WELLS;

COOPER-JACOB STRAIGHT LINE METHOD; HETEROGENOUS GRANULAR AQUIFERS; PALEOCHANNELS; POSITIVE SKIN EFFECTS; RADIAL FLOW PATTERNS;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; FLOWMETER; GROUNDWATER;

BOREHOLE; FLOWMETER; GRANULAR AQUIFER; GROUNDWATER; SKIN EFFECT; WELL;

EID: 0031882411     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb01066.x     Document Type: Article

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